A Silence Of Desire By Kamala Markandaya Analysis

Kamala Markandaya was born in 1924 a well educated and modern Brahmin family in a small village in South India. She was brought up in a healthy atmosphere with traditional and cultural values. She was the student of the University of Madras where she studied history between the years of 1940 to 1947.12 Besides studying at the University, she also worked as a journalist, wrote short stories and fiction. She has a good opportunity to travel through India and Europe; this helps her to get the knowledge of the East and the West. She was a brilliant student during her studies. She was inspired be several writers to write in English. She also took an active part in the freedom struggle of India so she left her studies. She was married to an English gentleman named John Taylor. This couple has a daughter named Kim Oliver, who is residing in England at present. She went to the United Kingdom in 1948 along with her family. She also had a deep love for her motherland, but equally shares the pragmatic …show more content…
Her diagrammatic representation of contemporary consciousness shows a new dimension of sensibility highlights on the psychological adjustment of an urban middle class family. It is essential a “Spiritual” Crises for Sarojini the serene and traditional housewife of the newly emerged middle class in the country. Her ultra modern husband asks to give up her faith of the traditional values of life. Her basic spiritual urgency and moral scrupulosity need cannot be either sacrificed or substituted, but her attitude towards the scientific civilization needs to be changed a little bit. Her husband, Dandekar, cannot calm out easily by himself. One of his friend’s view and the official status of Chari and Ghosh help him by getting rid of unhealthy situations involving his wife and her spiritual mentor Swami Markandaya has successfully explored deep into the sensitive relationship between a husband and a